A journalist with The Sunday Age and panellist on Network 10's weekly football show Before the Game, Samantha Lane is a versatile media identity who has made her name covering AFL football.

Sam began writing about footy while completing a Bachelor of Arts and language degree in French at Melbourne University, and now has broadcasting experience in print, television, radio and on-line journalism.

If variety is indeed the spice of life, then Des Dowling’s career is a vindaloo of life threatening intensity. He spent the early years of his career as a news and current affairs reporter for the ABC, Channel 7 and Channel 9. Des decided making people laugh, rather than making them cry, was a far more noble way to earn a living. In the twelve years since, he’s carved out a career as a top line comedian and corporate entertainer travelling the length and breadth of Australia.

In the 1990s, Brayshaw worked for the Seven Network in Adelaide. This included being a substitute sports anchor for the Seven Nightly News bulletin and working on local football discussion programs, such as Footy Plus. In early 1998 James was teamed up with Amanda Blair and Paul Gale on Adelaide's SAFM, which eventually became that city's number one rating breakfast show. One memorable on-air incident at SAFM saw him covered in Adelaide Crows bodypaint after the club he supports, North Melbourne, lost the 1998 AFL Grand Final to them.

Dave has been working closely with us at A Positive Move for over 15 years. During this period Dave has really done it all- from hosting his own Sports Night series, “Dave Whalen’s Pie Night” which included various sports personalities and entertainers through to being an on-air Radio personality on Sport 927.

Born in Melbourne in 1959, Michael has moved from being an elite VFL/AFL footballer to a respected sports journalist over the past two decades.

The son of St. Kilda Brownlow medallist and club legend Neil Roberts, Michael played for St. Kilda, Richmond and Fitzroy between 1978 and 1987 and represented Victoria against Western Australia in “State of Origin” football in 1981.

Christi Malthouse began her career in journalism in 1995 as a weekend reporter for Perth’s Sunday Times covering local football and NBL basketball. During the same year, Christi began her Degree in Journalism (Bachelor of English) at Curtin University in Perth and successfully managed both.

Come on Down!!” is the inimitable voice of Shawn Cosgrove from “The Price is Right” on Channel Nine! He has worked on Melbourne radio for 24 years hosting various programs including 3UZ The Good Sports, 3MP’s ‘Breakfast Show’, Gold FM and 1116SEN.

Shawn won the Australian Radio Award in 1997 for the Best Comedy segment, with a ‘Gotcha Call’ to a young woman who he convinced that she was sharing her wedding reception on a boat on the Yarra with a buck’s night and strippers.

“Rare to see an act so mature, refined and funny”…….. The Age

....But, not surprising when you consider the breadth of Lawrence Mooney’s experience in television (light entertainment, comedy and drama), radio, theatre and 12 years of live stand-up performances.

FRANKIE J. HOLDEN was born in 1952, the same year as the FJ Holden was first manufactured and during the course of his diverse career he has become as much an icon as his automotive namesake.

IAN COVER is a member of ABC Radio's Coodabeen Champions. The ever-popular team presents a football show on Saturdays and a national talk/music program on Sundays nights.

In 2006 the Coodabeens celebrated the 25th anniversary of broadcasting their Saturday footy program, a major milestone for the team and Australian radio.

Cricket

Simon played as an all-rounder for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield between 1984 and 1993. He played 6 Test matches, 5 on the 1985 Ashes tour of England, but was more successful in One Day Internationals.

A medium pace bowler and lower order big hitter, he played 87 times between 1985 and 1992, scoring 1242 runs and taking 108 wickets in his career. He was played in Australia's 1987 World Cup Final victory but then soon after was diagnosed with cancer, where he came back from the brink to return to the Australian One-Day team in the 1988-89 season.

Corporate major event presenter Peter Meehan, is a journalist, broadcaster and former state and national representative racing cyclist, who came to prominence in Melbourne during the 1990s as breakfast radio host on KZFM (now Gold FM) and Talking Melbourne 3AW.

Graeme Bowman is an accomplished hoax speaker. He can adapt his presentation to any specifications, producing a character and thoroughly fooling the guests into thinking that this character and his presentation are real. This is a very entertaining way to present many topics to your audience, as the crowd listens intently and then starts to wonder if it’s all actually for real!